Monthly Archives: July 2011
DVD Golden Corral: Night of the Creeps
One day, I’ll leave the eighties, I swear. But that day is not today, so say ‘hello’ to Night of the Creeps, one of the few select films by cult director Fred Dekker (Monster Squad). The film, Dekker’s debut at a mere (get ready to vomit) twenty-seven, is a gory, over-the-top homage to B-movie horror. [...]
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Tagged film review, fred dekker, monster squad, night of the creeps, review, zombies
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Comic Characters That Time Forgot: Karma
Name: Karma (Wayne Hawkins)
Group Affiliation: Doom Patrol
First Appearance: Doom Patrol #4 (DC Comics, 1988)
Powers: gave other people bad luck (through, technically, disrupted others’ motor reflexes)
Last seen: Suicide Squad #58 (also in 1991)
In the late 1980s, DC undertook a valiant effort (as they seem to every few years) to revitalize fan-favourite team of misfits, The Doom [...]
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Tagged comic books, dc comics, doom patrol, karma, suicide squad
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DVD Golden Corral: Shocker
The late eighties hair-metal-tinged horror movie Shocker is one of Wes Craven’s oddest films. Certainly, he’s not a director (and inveterate birder) without a few oddballs in his filmography (Swamp Thing, anyone?), but this one is like Silence of the Lambs meets the John Ritter televison parody Stay Tuned. But I’m not suggesting that’s an [...]
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Tagged film review, mitch pileggi, review, shocker, wes craven
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Comic Characters That Time Forgot: Gomi
Name: Gomi (Alphonsus Lefszycic)
Group Affiliation: Fallen Angels
First Appearance: Fallen Angels #2 (Marvel Comics, 1987)
Powers: telekinesis (moves stuff with his mind)
Last seen: Fallen Angels #8 (also in 1987)
Gomi is, hands-down, one of the weirdest comic characters of all time, on one of the weirdest teams of all time, Fallen Angels. Telekinesis is cool [...]
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Tagged comic books, fallen angels, gomi, lobsters, marvel comics, new mutants, rae dawn chong
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